Tillerson urged Russia and China to take direct action against the North.

Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State, has said North Korea threatens “the entire world,” after the country launched its second missile over Japan on Thursday.

North Korea launched a mid-range missile over Japan on Thursday in response to the recent US-drafted UN Security Council sanctions. The missile marked the longest traveling one in North’s missile program.

“In East Asia, an increasingly aggressive and isolated regime in North Korea threatens democracies in South Korea, Japan, and more importantly, and more recently, has expanded those threats to the United States, endangering the entire world,” said Tillerson.
Latest sanctions against North Korea was the strictest one yet. Tillerson called the sanctions “the floor, not the ceiling, of the actions we should take”.

US President Donald Trump has called for further sanctions against the isolated country. US wants to ban hiring of North Korean workers in foreign countries and oil imports for the North.

Mr. Tillerson asked China and Russia – North Korea’s economic partners – to “indicate their intolerance for these reckless missile launches by taking direct actions of their own”.

The situation will “lead to the further growth of tensions and the further escalation of tensions on the [Korean] peninsula,” Dmitry Peskov, President Putin’s spokesman, said. He also added that Russia “resolutely condemns” the missile test.

Hua Chunying, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, said the US and its allies best not inflame a “complex, sensitive and severe” situation. She said the countries involved are directly responsible for North Korea crisis.

“Any attempt to wash their hands of the issue is irresponsible and unhelpful for its resolution,” she said.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Japan and South Korea united with the US, must form a “united international front that upholds our values and strives to make us safer”. In wake of North Korea’s latest missile test, The Security Council is planned to meet on Friday to discuss options.

Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister, urged the Security Council to firmly impose the already existing sanctions against the North.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who were against military action and preached diplomacy at first, after the latest missile test said Kim Jong-un has made dialogue “impossible”.

“The sanctions and pressure by the international community will only tighten so that North Korea has no choice but to take the path for genuine dialogue,” he said.

North Korea’s latest missile flew 2,300 miles over Japan before diving into the Pacific Ocean. Japan triggered alarms causing many Japanese to take shelter. It was NK’s 19th missile launch since the country started its missile program.